Not all horticulturists and truck farmers were lucky enough to grow their crops in a warm climate. But you want to grow many fruits and vegetables yourself, from seeds. This can be done with vaccinations. For example, watermelons are vaccinated for a pumpkin lagenariya or a bottle pumpkin.
How to plant watermelons?
In practice, watermelon inoculation is possible on any pumpkin, but only lagenaria has good resistance to cooling, when other plants stop their growth. This is the main goal pursued in this procedure, because the watermelon ceases to develop if the temperature falls below 18 ° C, and this is quite common for cold regions even in summer. In addition, the wrecker of the melon is Fusarium, is not afraid of a pumpkin, and therefore it is ideal for the vaccination target.
Most often and much more productive is to inoculate a watermelon on a pumpkin by convergence. This is a simple method, in which the main thing, slowness and accuracy. It will take two young plants of about the same age and size.
Before planting watermelon on a pumpkin, you will need to prepare clean tools for incision. It can be a blade or a thin sharp knife. 2-3 centimeters above the growth point on two plants, the incision is notched, almost vertically, with only a slight inclination, one up, the other down. And after that one stalk is "put on" on the other.
After this inoculation, the fusion site should be pressed tightly enough and fixed with tape or tape. On sale it is possible to meet a special vaccination clothespin, but, according to reviews, it does not justify its purpose.
After four days, cut the watermelon from the root, and it begins to receive food through the root system of the pumpkin. In this way, cucumbers are also planted to increase yields in cool regions.